Vote players into our alltime top 160, etc.

[MW00]

Write in: Kirlienko, Roundfield

[Mike G]

Alrighty, then.
We've promoted 19 players/careers to the preliminary top 134 : Anthony, Cassell, Chambers, Cheeks, Coleman, Cummings, Penny Hardaway, King, Macauley, Mikkelsen, Andre Miller, Oakley, Price, Rondo, Schrempf, Stoudemire, Strickland, Thorpe, Buck Williams.

Write-in candidates who failed to get more than one vote in the previous 2 rounds and have been replaced: Dumars, Maravich, Gus Johnson, Ramsey

[Mike G]

MW, I assume those write-ins were supposed to be in the previous round. We crossed posts.
Roundfield was due to appear in this round anyway; AK in the next one or 2 rounds. So the upshot is that they're on the ballot now and for the duration.

[Mike G]

Sorted by (1) round of voting, (2) votes, and (3) alphabetically (as listed) -- our 'preliminary' top 134 careers/players thus far:

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1-20         21-40     41-60      61-80       81-100      101-120     121-134
Bird        Robinson. Pierce     Gasol       Sikma       Howell.      Carmelo
Duncan      Barkley   Schayes.   Mutombo     Walton.     Chet Walker  Cassell
Jordan      Baylor    Cousy      Parker.     Brand       Laimbeer     Chambers
Kareem      Wade.     Iverson   Ben Wallace  Divac      Mark Jackson  Coleman
Lebron      Havlicek. McGrady    Carter      Grant Hill  Mo Lucas.    King
Magic       Ewing     Parish     Durant      Kemp        Adams        Macauley
Russell     Gilmore   Paul.      Issel       T Porter    Aguirre      Mikkelsen
Shaq.       Pettit.   Lanier     KJ          Webber.     Archibald    Oakley
Garnett     Barry     Ray Allen. Worthy.     Beaty       Bobby Jones  Penny H
Oscar       Cowens    Dantley    Bellamy     Bosh        Dandridge    Price
Wilt.       Drexler   Gervin     Billups    DeBusschere  Greer        Rondo
Erving      Dwight    Ginobili   Heinsohn    DJ         Gus Williams  Schrempf
Olajuwon.   Kidd     Jerry Lucas Johnston    English     Ho Grant    Strickland
Kobe        McHale    McAdoo     Marion      Hornacek    Reed         Thorpe
Stockton.   Payton.   Mourning   Marques     Lovellette  Wilkens.  
Karl Malone Frazier   Nique      Nance.      McGinnis    Amar'e   
Nowitzki    Hayes     Reggie     Arizin      Moncrief    Cheeks   
West.       Isiah     Thurmond   Hagan       Rasheed     Cummings.   
Moses       Mikan     Unseld.    Rodman      Sam Jones   Andre Miller   
Pippen      Nash     Cunningham  Sharman     T Hardaway. Buck Williams   

[A period indicates the last (alphabetical) name among players who are tied in vote-ranking.]
From this "voters' top xxx", we'll re-start in a 2nd iteration. This just gets us to more of a consensus on whom the candidates should be.

[Mike G]

The 2nd iteration has begun: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8366

[Mike G]

This looks likely to be the last round of phase 1 ranking. We have yet to see some very good players.
Next 25 would be Richie Guerin, Paul Silas, Lou Hudson, Earl Monroe, Connie Hawkins, Larry Kenon, Mickey Johnson, Mychal Thompson, Derek Harper, Doc Rivers, Byron Scott, Alvin Robertson, Mitch Richmond, Danny Manning, Hersey Hawkins, Anthony Mason, Steve Smith, Larry Johnson, Shareef Abdul-Raheem, Rashard Lewis, Mike Bibby, Steve Francis, Ron Artest, Kenyon Martin, David West.

After that: Don Nelson, Willie Wise, Calvin Murphy, Pete Maravich, Fred Brown, Randy Smith, Paul Westphal, John Drew, Norm Nixon, Joe Dumars, Xavier McDaniel, AC Green, John Starks, Glen Rice, Christian Laettner, Nick Van Exel, Jamal Mashburn, Glenn Robinson, Arvydas Sabonis, Jerry Stackhouse, Joe Johnson, Gilbert Arenas, Richard Jefferson, Jason Richardson, Andre Iguodala.

A lot of allstars, all-leaguers, and general world-beaters in NBA/ABA history!
We may come back to it during some lull in the conversations.